Ice-delivery device



March 11, 1930. R. H. ROA'RK 1,749,843

ICE DELIVERY DEVICE Filed Jan. 27, 198

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A 1"! ORNEY Patented Mar. 11, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROBERT HENRY ROARK, OE WAGO, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR TO THE PERFECTION ICE SCORING MACHINE COMPANY, OF WACO, TEXAS ICE-DELIVERY DEVICE Application filed January 27, 1928.

This invention relates to improvements in ice delivery devices for ice storage rooms and has for its object the provision of means for delivering blocks of ice of various predetermined sizes and weights through one opening and including a plurality of chutes, each for a number of different sized cakes or blocks of ice.

The nature and object of the invention will be clearly understood from the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and wherein:

Figure l is a side elevation of the invention, showing its installation in the interior of an ice storage room.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of one of the dogs or mechanisms installed in each chute for releasing a block of ice and simultaneously retaining the undelivered blocks of ice.

Figure 3 is a sectional detail view on a smaller scale similar to Figure 1 and illustrating the. position of a block of ice being discharged from an upper chute and showing the retarding means therefor.

Referring more in detail to the drawings, 1 designates a wall having a platform 2 from which ice is delivered to the customers. The wall has a passage 3 through which the ice is discharged onto the platform. The floor 4: no of the interior of the ice room is adapted to support the framework of the device which may consist of several of the upright members 5'and may be required and which are suitably braced for supporting the chutes 6 and 7 Although only two chutes are shown it should be understood that the invention embraces the idea of a plurality of superimposed chutes for the release and discharge of blocks of ice of desired sizes and weights.

The means for releasing each block of ice as desired on the delivery thereof is effected by means of a dog 8 illustrated in detail in Figure 2. Each chute is provided with one of these dogs, the dogs being mounted on a shaft 9 underneath and attached to the chute. The

dog is arranged on the shaft so that it will move through an opening in the bottom of the chute, as shown in Figure 1. This dog, as clearly shown in Figure 2, has its opposite ends rounded at 10 and adjacent the rounded Serial No. 250,051.

portion the dog has a flat surface 11 for engagement with the flat surface of a block of ice when the block is being held in place before releasing thereof on the chute. The rounded portion 10, as will also be understood from Figure 1 prevents the remaining blocks of ice indicated generally at 12 from sliding downward until the dog 8 resumes its normal position.

For operating the dogs there is provided an arm 14 rigidly secured to the shaft 9 and pivotally connected to a lever 15 which has a handle hold 16. A flap 17 provides a closure for the passage 3.

Since the upper chute 7, in order to permit the ice blocks to be delivered through the same passage as those blocks on the chute 6, must have some means for allowing the ice to slide through this passage, there is provided a movable flap 18. Likewise the blocks on the chute 7 will slide on this flap at a greater angle than those on the lower chute, and there is therefore provided for the upper chute a retarding means in the form of a spring 19. In Figure 3 a block of ice is shown ready to he slid down the flap 18, the flap normally resting on the lower chute as at 6, but raised when a block of ice B is passing out. Also that the spring 19 (Figure 3) is now pressed upward and prevents the block of ice A from descending too rapidly.

In operation, the lever 15 is pulled outwardly, outside the passage 3, which results in tilting the dog on the platform or chute 6 in the position shown. This releases the block of ice B, allowing it to slide outwardly and be delivered onto the platform 2, passing under the flap or closure 17. In the meantime the block of ice C is held from sliding downward by the rounded portion 10 of the dog, until the lever is moved backward. On the backward movement of the lever 15 the block C is released and then occupies the position of the block D on the upper chute, i. e., one end of the block abutting the flat surface of the dog indicated at 11. The blocks of ice on the chute 7 are discharged in the same manner as those on chute 6, with the excep- I 8 is of smaller dimensions longitudinally than the block of ice and the dimensions of the dog will also depend upon the'size of the block of ice be' delivered from any particular chute. fiewise, other modifications may be made in the construction of the device in keeping with the following claims.

What is claimed is:

1. In an ice delivery apparatus having a plurality of superimpose inclined gravity chutes, with a common delive passage; a movable slide for delivering ice rom the lower end of the upper chute to the common passage, the lower end of said slide normally extending into the path of ice blocks on the low ,er chute, and capable of being raised by ice blocks passing out from the lower chute.

2. In an ice delivery apparatus having a plurality of fixed, superimposed, inclined gravity chutes with a common delivery pas-r ea c, and manual means for controlling the de ivery of ice from each of said chutes; a'

movable slide for delivering ice from the lower end of the upper chute to the common passage, the lower end of said slide normally extending into the path of ice blocks on the lower chute, and capable of being raised by ice blocks passing out from the lower chute.

3. In an ice delivery apparatus having a plurality of superimposed inclined gravity chutes, with a common deliver passage; a movable slide for delivering ice om the lower end of the upper chute to the common passage, the lower end of said slide normally extending into the path of iceblocks on the lower chute, and capable of being raised by ice blocks passing out from the lower chute, and means for retarding the passage of ice down said movable slide.

4. In an ice delivery apparatus having a plurality of superimposed inclined gravity chutes with a common delivery passage, a hinged extension piece on the lower end of the upper chute for delivering ice to the'common delivery passage, said extension iece normally projecting into the path of ice blocks on the lower chute when in lowered position and being capable of being raised by ice blocks passing from the lower chute.

5. In an ice delivery apparatus havin a plurality of superimposed inclined para lel gravity chutes individually controlled and with a common delivery passage, a pivoted extension piece on the delivery end of the upper chute said extension plece being'normall in lowered position extending downwar ly from the upper chute at an angle steeper than the slope of the chutes and into the path of blocks of ice on the lower chute and being capable of being raised by ice blocks passing out from the lower chute.

In testimon whereof I aflix my signature.

R BERT HENRY ROARK. 

